List of Refresher Courses for the year 2015-16

The Following is the list of Refreshers courses to be conducted during the financial year 2015-16 by various Human Resource Development Centers in India.

1. HRDC, Calicut University, Kerala           : From 01/07/2015 to 21/07/2015
    See: http://www.ugcasccalicut.info 


2. Goa University, Goa                                : From 04/08/2015 to 24/08/2015
    See: https://www.unigoa.ac.in/ugc-hrdc.php


3. University of Mysore, Mysore                   : From 10/09/2015 to 30/09/2015
    See: http://www.unom.ac.in/uploads/announcements/ugcascschedule_20150321095651_64196.pdf


4. Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore         : From 29/9/2015 to 19/10/2015
    See: http://hrdcdavv.ddns.net/

5. University of Madras, Chennai                   : From 12/11/2015 to 02/12/2015
    See: http://www.unom.ac.in/asc/


6. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh               : From 18/11/2015 to 8/12/2015
    See: http://www.ascamu.ac.in/


7. University of North Bengal, Siliguri              : From 26/11/2015 to 16/12/2015
    See: http://www.nbu.ac.in/HRDC_NBU%20Schedule_2015_16.pdf

8. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar          : From 08/12/2015 to 28/12/2015
     See: http://www.hrdcgndu.org/courses.html

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Education

Education Research, Practices, and Approaches
These journals focus on research, practices, and specific approaches to education on all levels.

1. Journal of Curriculum and Instruction. The articles here focus on research and practice relevant to pre K-12 education.
2. The School Community Journal. The mission of this journal is to unite the entire community of teachers, parents, and students to work in the interest of successful education.
3. Insight. This annual journal focuses on research-based articles, case studies, and innovation in teaching, learning, and assessment.
4. Education Review. Find reviews of books that discuss education scholarship and practice in this journal.
5. Networks. Kindergarten through postgraduate teachers share research on classroom practices in an effort to improve effectiveness.
6. Educational Researcher. Take a look at current educational practices and trends here.
7. International Journal of Progressive Education. Explore the possibilities of the future of education by looking at such issues as multicultural education, new literacies, and globalization.
8. International Journal of Whole Schooling. Based on the eight principles of whole schooling, this journal publishes analysis, research and practices that work to improve learning.
9. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation. This journal provides scholarly articles on research and ideas about educational practices.
10. The Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice. Stay on top of cultural criticism and pluralistic approaches to teaching in a variety of settings with the information in this journal.
11. Journal of Research Practice. Take a look at interdisciplinary research as a practice with the scholarly articles here.
12. MountainRise. Find scholarly articles on the practice of teaching and learning in this journal.
    The Qualitative Report. Qualitative research is the focus of the scholarly articles found here.
13. Research in Middle Level Education Online. Read studies, cases, and research relevant to middle school education and young adolescents.
14. The Open Education Journal. This open access journal offers information on contemporary education and learning.

Education Policy and Issues
Find out what is being researched and discussed when it comes to educational policies and issues when you read these journals.

1. Education Next. This evidence-based journal highlights current research in education policy and school reform.
2. Education Policy Analysis Archives. Available in both English and Spanish, the articles here focus on current policy in American education.
3. Nonpartisan Education Review. Find nonpartisan research, information, and policy on education issues here.
4. Florida Journal of Educational Administration & Policy. Publishing peer-reviewed articles on education administration and policy, this journal invites readers from K-12 and higher education settings.
5. Current Issues in Comparative Education. With voices from teachers, students, policy-makers, and academics, this journal explores contemporary educational issues.
6. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. Examining a variety of policy approaches to education, this journal is specifically an exploration of Marxist and Left analyses of education.
7. Current Issues in Education. Read scholarly works exploring the issues and policies in education.
8. The Future of Children. Find research and analysis promoting the development of programs and policies for children.

LeadershipFind out what it takes to become a strong leader both inside and out of the classroom with these journals that focus on leadership in education.

1. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership. This journal is dedicated to expanding the education policy and leadership knowledge base and promoting exploration of policy alternatives.
2. Academic Leadership. Learn about cultivating leadership in both public school and higher education settings.
3. Advancing Women in Leadership Online Journal. Stay on top of the latest information about women’s issues in leadership roles.
4. International Journal of Teacher Leadership. This peer-reviewed journal offers information on the practice and research of teacher leadership in their annual publications.
5. International Journal of Urban Educational Leadership. Focusing on the specific issues that pertain to urban environments, this journal publishes both traditional and alternative scholarly items.

Science and Math
These journals provide the latest information on science and math education.

1. Life Sciences Education. This journal offers insight on teaching and learning in the life sciences.
2. The Electronic Journal of Literacy Through Science. Learn about writing and language arts as a tool for teaching and learning science.
3. Electronic Journal of Science Education. Explore varied aspects of teaching and learning science with the articles in this journal.
4. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education. Read about all aspects of science, environment, and technology in education with the articles here.
5. Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal. Find peer-reviewed articles featuring the highest-quality scholarship performed by undergraduate students.
6. Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research. This peer-reviewed journal promotes the teaching and learning of physics.
7. DIO: The International Journal of Scientific History. Scientists and mathematicians write about scientific history and principle here.
8. The Mathematics Educator. This journal serves as a source for information exchange between math education professionals.
9. Journal of Statistics Education. Focusing on understanding students’ approach to learning statistics and improving ways of teaching statistics is the mission of this journal.

Language Arts
From teaching literature to teens to preventing plagiarism, these journals are all about language arts education.

1. The ALAN Review. This journal provides information relevant to teaching literature to teens.
2. Kairos. This journal explores the language arts and rhetoric through the use of new media.
3. Computers and Composition Online. Learn about technology as a tool to teaching and learning literacy in this journal.
4. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. This journal explores scholarship in comparative literature and cultural studies.
5. The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning and Teaching. Aimed at teachers of language in K-12 and college, this journal examines the use of imagination in teaching first and secondary languages.
6. Reading Online. Browse through these journal articles that focus on teaching reading.
7. Language Learning & Technology. This journal is specifically for teachers of second and foreign language and how teaching and learning can be enhanced through the use of technology.
8. Literacy Teaching and Learning. Non-members of the Reading Recovery Council of North America have full access to archived issues of this journal that seeks to promote literacy learning in young students.
9. Plagiary. Explore issues of plagiarism and falsification in writing with the scholarly articles here.

The Arts, Foreign Language, and Social Studies
Learn about teaching music, creative arts, foreign languages, geography and culture, and more with these journals.

1. International Journal of Community Music. Learn about music instruction in both traditional settings and atypical settings with the information here.
2. Research and Issues in Music Education. Get research and commentary on the practice of music education.
3. International Journal of Education & the Arts. Find scholarly articles that examine the co-mingling of education and the arts.
4. The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice. This journal explores the use of creative arts as a healing modality.
5. Journal of Museum Studies. Students and faculty involved in museum studies will benefit from the articles in this publication.
6. Social Studies Research and Practice. This peer-reviewed journal provides a forum for teachers of PreK-16 social studies.
7. ACME. Follow the social and political aspects of geography being researched with this journal.
8. Fast Capitalism. These articles analyze the implications of information and communication technologies on society and culture.
9. Heritage Language Journal. Explore the issues of teaching and learning heritage languages with these articles.
10. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. This internationally-recognized journal shares scholarly information to promote teaching ESL and EFL.

Technology
Technology in education is a popular topic, so stay on top of the latest research coming out with these journals.

1. Journal of Educational Technology & Society. These articles serve to unite those who design technology systems for education and those educators who implement and manage these systems to work together for the greater good of education.
2. International Forum on Information Technology in Education. Learn about resources and tools that help promote technology in K-16 education.
3. Meridian. This journal provides information on technology in middle school education.
4. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. Explore the intersection of technology and teacher education in math, science, language arts, and social studies.
5. EDUCAUSE Review. Technology in higher education is the focus of this online journal.
6. International Journal of Educational Technology. A joint venture between the US and Australia, this journal provides scholarly articles on technology in education twice a year.
7. THEN: Journal. This journal offers a humanities-based approach to learning about research on the use of technology in education.
8. The Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment. Computer-based technology, learning, and assessment is the focus of this peer-reviewed journal.
9. Journal of Online Behavior. Read the research being done surrounding online behavior.
10. The Journal of Information Technology Education. This annual journal works to improve IT education around the world.
11. Journal of Career and Technical Education. Examine the practices of vocational and technical education with these scholarly articles.
12. Journal of Industrial Teacher Education. These articles focus on issues surrounding teaching career and technology.
13. Journal of Technology Education. Explore topics in technology education with this academic journal.

Special Education, Early Education, and Child Development
From pre-K learners to child development to special education, read these journals to stay connected with what’s happening in these fields.

1. Journal of Special Education Technology. Learn about policy and practice associated with technology used in the field of special education.
2. Teaching Exceptional Children Plus. The information here is specifically of interest to those who work with children with special needs.
3. International Journal of Special Education. Published three times a year, these articles are provided for both teachers and students of special education.
4. Information Technology and Disabilities E-Journal. Read studies on the use of technology with students with disabilities here.
5. The Journal of Speech – Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis. Professionals staying on top of the issues of speech and language pathology and ABA will find scholarly articles in this journal.
6. Early Childhood Research and Practice. Stay on top of the latest on the development and care of the youngest learners here.
7. Journal of Youth Development. This multidisciplinary approach to child development focuses on school-aged children to those transitioning to adulthood.
8. Teaching Educational Psychology. Learn about teaching educational psychology to teachers, parents, administrators, and policy-makers with the information found here.
9. Childhoods Today. See what the latest research is saying in respect to the field of childhood studies with this journal.

Higher Education and Online EducationThese journals are all about college-level and online education topics.

1. Innovate. Explore the current practices and trends in online education with this journal.
2. Journal of Interactive Online Learning. Read manuscripts, essays, and reviews discussing perspectives of online learning.
3. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration. This journal shares scholarly works examining the management of distance learning education programs.
4. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Study the scholarship of teaching and learning at the higher education level with these journal articles.
5. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. This journal provides a place for teachers, students, and academics to work toward improving the quality of higher-education instruction.
6. The Montana Professor. Find scholarly articles discussing teaching in the higher education arena.
7. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. The works here promote a higher education workplace activism and a "new dignity in academic work."
8. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. This journal is issued two times a year and explores teaching and learning in higher education.
9. Radical Pedagogy. This journal provides analysis of teaching and learning in contemporary academia.
10. The Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching & Learning. The information here looks at promoting excellence in teaching in the higher education environment.
11. InSight: Rivier Academic Journal. Find peer-reviewed papers promoting the advancement of liberal arts higher education in this journal.

Variety of Educational Approaches and Specialized Topics
From study abroad programs to food science education to rural education, these journals all focus on a variety of specialized topics and educational approaches.

1. School Library Media Research. Learn about evaluating and implementing successful school library media programs with the articles here.
2. InterActions. The scholarly articles here examine interdisciplinary and critical scholarship with a special focus on higher education.
3. Frontiers. Explore scholarly issues surrounding study abroad programs with the information in this journal.
4. Journal of American Indian Education. This journal publishes papers directly related to the education of American Indian/Alaska natives.
5. GEFAME. Get scholarly information on the field of African studies in this journal.
6. Journal of Food Science Education. Stay on top of the developments in the field of food science education at all levels.
7. Journal of Education for International Development. This journal is specifically for education professionals working in developing countries.
8. The International Electronic Journal of Health Education. Keep up with health education practices and policy around the world with this journal.
9. Journal of Research in Rural Education. This peer-reviewed journal explores issues relevant to rural education.
10. Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement. Learn about effective programs and practices being used to promote education and advancement for Southeast Asian Americans.
11. Perspectives in Urban Education. Explore issues important to urban education with this journal from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.

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Library and Information Science

1. Action for Libraries
2. African Journal of Information and Communication Technology
3. Anales de Documentacion
4. ARL Synergy News
5. Asian Journal of Information Management
6. Australian Academic & Research Libraries
7. Australian Library Journal
8. Ariadne
9. Arquivistica.net
10. BID: Textos universitaris de biblioteconomia i documentaci
11. Bilgi Dunyasi
12. Biomedical Digital Libraries
13. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
14. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
15. Chinese Librarianship
16. Chinese Librarianship: an International Electronic Journal
17. Circulation Control
18. Circulation Journal
19. Circulation Management
20. Code4Lib Journal
21. Communications in Information Literacy
22. Coordinates : Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association. Series A
23. Coordinates : Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association. Series B
24. Cybermetrics: international journal of scientometrics, informetrics, and bibliometrics
25. D-Lib Magazine
26. Data Science Journal
27. DigiCULT
28. Digital Web Magazine
29. Electronic British Library journal
30. Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
31. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics
32. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation
33. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries
34. lectronic Journal of Knowledge Management
35. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
36. First Monday
37. Florida Libraries
38. GMS Medizin-Bibliothek-Information
39. High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine
40. Hipertext.net
41. Human IT: tidskrift for studier av IT ur ett humanvetenskapligt perspektiv
42. IFLA Journal
43. Information Bulletin for Librarians
44. Information for Social Change
45. Information Research: an international electronic journal
46. Information Technology and Disabilities
47. Information Today
48. Information Today & Tomorrow
49. Informing Science The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
50. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects
51. International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control
52. International Journal of Digital Curation
53. International Journal of Doctoral Studies
54. International Journal of Special Libraries
    International Review of Information Ethics
55. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
56. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
57. Journal of Digital Information
58. Journal of Electronic Publishing
59. Journal of eLiteracy
60. Journal of Information Literacy
61. Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organizations
62. Journal of Knowledge Management Practice
63. Journal of Medical Internet Research
64. Journal of the Medical Library Association
65. Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries
66. KMWorld Magazine
67. Library & Information Research : Research into Practice for Information & Library Services
68. Library Journal
69. Library of Congress Information Bulletin
70. Library Philosophy and Practice
71. Library Student Journal
72. LIBREAS - Library Ideas
73. Libres: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal
74. edizin-Bibliothek-Information
75. Nebraska Library Association quarterly
76. North Carolina Libraries
77. Partnership : the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research Progressive Librarian
78. Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciencia da Informacao
79. Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly
80. School Library Media Research
81. SIMILE
82. Svensk Biblioteksforskning
83. Technology Electronic Reviews, TER
84. Virginia Libraries
85. Webology